They first recorded “Hippity Ha” with the
adorable flip “Until You’re Mine” for Herald back in 1955, one year later they
also scored a starring role in Fritz Pollard's R&B picture “Rockin’ the
Blues”, which also included the Harptones, Hurricanes, Wanderers and the great
Lula Reed. Here they are featured doing two uptempo dance numbers: “Do You
Wanna Go” and “Everybody's Havin' a Ball” (a re-titling of their own “Roll Back
the Rug”).

The movie premiered at Harlem’s Apollo Theater.

In ’56, after releasing “Guess Who” b/w “How Am
I To Know” on Ember, they moved to Hull Records, which was the label former
Herald Records executive Blanche "Bea" Kaslin established along with Billy
Dawn and Mr. Miller (apparently Kaslin had just had enough of seeing artists
being mistreated, not paid appropriately, and being taken advantage of with
contracts). The label had some great R&B success with their very first
release from The Heartbeats' ”Crazy For You” b/w “Rockin-N-Rollin-N-Rhythm-N-Blues‘N”
in ’55. The girls recorded in 1956 among others the remarkable song “Do You
Wanna Go” paired with “Please Don’t Go”.

While the sisters were at Herald records, their
father obtained their release from an exclusive contract that they held with
the label and would thereafter freelance for Hull, ACME, Onyx, Riverside,
Roulette, Capri and others. In 1960 they recorded “Please Mr. Disc Jockey” for the Miller High-Figh label. William Miller
wrote this ballad in 1956 for Yvonne Mills & The Sensations. The flip was a
re-recording of “Do You Wanna Go”. In 1960 and 1961 the girls also provided
backup vocals for Sylvia Laramore, Leo Price
(the younger brother of Lloyd Price) and The Avons.

In 1961 it was Hully Gully fever that was
scuffing the dance floors, and the Glodis release “Pop Your Finger” (flip to “You
Got To Reap What You Sow”) certainly would have been getting some heavy
rotations around the dance halls.

1962 brought some crackers for the girls,
firstly Rayna’s superb release “Dance Little Sister” (flipped with the soulful
ballad “I Miss You So”). Slow and swinging, but heavy on the rhythm, and
brutally charming vocals with more sass than one can handle. Then on Riverside,
the dizzyingly beautiful ballad “Tell Him” (flipped with “Dance Close”). But
the year also brought out “The Hully Gully Reel” b/w “I Cried All Night”.

In ’64, Big Joe and the ladies struck again
with “Cooncha” b/w “Hey You” which they recorded in Quebec for Capri in ’64,
supposedly while on tour together… driving stuff! (Their father was credited as
“Pop Miller” on the label).

James "Jimmy" Dockett

In 1965 the sisters backed up Jimmy Dockett on
two songs for Hull. They switched to the GMC label in 1966 and had their last
release with “Your Gonna Lose (A Good Thing)” b/w “The Wedding Is
Over” on the GMC label in 1968.